This will generate HFiles from /bulktest-tsv and store in to /bulktest-hfiles.

I have three columns in the TSV files, first being the row key, second being what I want stored in columnfamily a with qualifier b, and third with qualifier c (this was controlled by importtsv.columns).

After that job is done, you need to change the permissions of /bulktest-hfiles so that the HBase user owns the HFiles, and then run completebulkload so HBase finds the HFiles: